Trying to figure out budget

jigger · 28 Dec 2021 at 18:08

floz said:
Yeah if from scalpers but holding out for a fe.

That’s retail. You’ll be waiting for months to get a card direct from Nvidia.

Holst1981 · 28 Dec 2021 at 18:38

jigger said:
That’s retail. You’ll be waiting for months to get a card direct from Nvidia.

It depends on your luck.

I picked up a FE card on my first attempt after a couple of weeks waiting.

For a more budget build I'm happy with the performance of my b450 and 3600 with 16gb of b-die ram.
That would be a cheaper option than newer stuff and might just squeeze into budget with a decent PSU, cheaper case and a few fans.

For gaming the 3600 is still decent even with the latest GPU's

jigger · 28 Dec 2021 at 18:59

I’d wait for CES next week. Intel is about to launch its own graphics cards.

floz · 30 Dec 2021 at 07:06

jigger said:
That’s retail. You’ll be waiting for months to get a card direct from Nvidia.

That’s ok. I’m not in a huge rush. Can’t afford to be with prices as they are for cards.

jigger said:
I’d wait for CES next week. Intel is about to launch its own graphics cards.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have a read of the rumours. I didn’t even know they were making cards.

Holst1981 said:
It depends on your luck.

I picked up a FE card on my first attempt after a couple of weeks waiting.

For a more budget build I'm happy with the performance of my b450 and 3600 with 16gb of b-die ram.
That would be a cheaper option than newer stuff and might just squeeze into budget with a decent PSU, cheaper case and a few fans.

For gaming the 3600 is still decent even with the latest GPU's

Thanks. What games are you running on that? What fps/quality do you run them at?

Holst1981 · 30 Dec 2021 at 15:47

floz said:
That’s ok. I’m not in a huge rush. Can’t afford to be with prices as they are for cards.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have a read of the rumours. I didn’t even know they were making cards.

Thanks. What games are you running on that? What fps/quality do you run them at?

At 1440p 165hz most games can be run at max or near max settings.
With gsync/freesync I don't tend to notice any frame drops.

As long as I get 90+ fps I'm happy and the 3080ti and 3600 are easily capable of that.

Should the 3600 become a bottleneck on future games I can upgrade to a 5900x on the same board.

At the moment I'm playing control with Ray tracing as well as Witcher 3 and a few others.